Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate serves about 2,362 people through 640 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hanover County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4085770; phone on file: 804-749-8868. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.55 ppb from 1.55 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.98 ppb |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
How Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate compares
Of the 996 Virginia systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 59 have gone over at some point. Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 40th percentile in Virginia and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Hanover County
17 other systems share Hanover County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hanover Suburban Water System | 57,931 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mayfield Farms | 1,444 | 1.22 ppb |
| Avondale | 1,285 | 2.56 ppb |
| Cherrydale Subdivision | 928 | 1.36 ppb |
| Rural Point Central | 690 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hanover Farms | 471 | 0.56 ppb |
| Oak Hill Estates | 350 | 5 ppb |
| Walnut Grove No 1 | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holly Ridge No 1 | 279 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colonial Forest | 246 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.